Paul Davies – Darlington

January 2018: Given a 12-month suspended prison sentence and ordered to sign on the sex offenders’ register for ten years

November 2017

Darlington man had 5,506 indecent images of children and animals on his computer

A MAN has pleaded guilty to possessing more than 5,500 indecent images of children and animals.

Paul Davies, of Major Street, Darlington, admitted to downloading thousands of grossly offensive photographs and videos after they were discovered on his computer.

The 39-year-old bowed his head in the dock after accepting three counts of making indecent images of a child and a single charge of possessing extreme pornographic images involving animals.

Reviews of the images found on Davies’ computer are believed to date from downloads between September 2009 to November 2016.

Of the evidence recovered by police, 755 pictures and videos were accepted to be grossly offensive category A material, while a further 870 were category B and 3,754 were identified as falling into category C.